The Home Circle
IF WE UNDERSTOOD.
Could we but draw back the curtains That surround each other’s lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, o£ten we should find it better, Purer than we judge we should : We should love each other better If we only understood.
If we knew the cares and trials, Knew the efforts all in vain, And the bitter disappointment, Understood the loss and gain, Would the grim external roughness Seem, I wonder, just the same ? Should we help where now we hinder ? Should we pity where we blame ?
Oh ! we judge each other harshly, Knowing not life’s hidden force, Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source ; Seeing not amid the evils All the golden grains of good. Oh ! we’d love each other better If we only understood. —Selected,
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Southern Cross, Volume 10, Issue 19, 9 August 1902, Page 11
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143The Home Circle Southern Cross, Volume 10, Issue 19, 9 August 1902, Page 11
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